Aphrodite: The Statue Of Pompeii

Some features include the size of the women and appearance. The size of the women in the sculpture shows that she is big and powerful. And the appearance and how she is sitting shows that she is a royalty or like Mellaart said goddess. Another understanding could of been that it was just a sculpture pertaining to body image.

It appears other minute details of the marble statue of Aphrodite have been damaged or lost, for example, the heat and base of her feet. Nonetheless, one can certify it is the statue of Aphrodite because of some of the figures that have been placed at her side. The characters beside the statue appear to represent icons commonly linked to Aphrodite. The dolphin symbolizes the birth of the goddess from the sea, and maybe that’s why people believed that she controlled animal fertility. Since the nose has broken off, it appears that the head is a mystery as to its finer and greater details.

Holding great influence over both gods and mortals, Aphrodite could have anyone or anything she wanted. Using her unique powers, she could charm and convince her various desired lovers for much more than love and romance. Many have said that she was the goddess of lust, desire, trickery and sex appeal. Either way, Aphrodite had an assortment of engagements with other mortals and immortals. Her most recognized encounter was with the notorious Ares, who later went on to take the actual title of being her husband.

Due to its large life like stature, it was certainly an expensive and lavish commission, thus would have provided an engaging image of the goddess of love, sexuality, and fertility that would have been fitting for diverse interpretations as well as settings. While viewpoints concerning women portrayed in art had gradually differed preceding the fifth century, the male nude captured the focus of art for centuries in that region. Viewed as the ideal form, to be respected and created exquisitely into a piece of art; nevertheless, since Praxiteles sculpted the Aphrodite of Knidos, the male image had to progressively accommodate the attention with his female equivalent. The artist’s rendering of the Aphrodite of Knidos functioned as a statement of female sexuality, one without necessarily oppression or disgrace. Being the goddess of love and a powerful worshipped feminine symbol, she had nothing to be ashamed of. The work was meant to illustrate the power in a woman’s modesty, removing the robe of societal oppression, and ushering in an era of equality in the ideal nude of the Greek and Roman

The statue is a Roman reproduction of a Greek work. It shows Venus, the goddess of love, standing bare-breasted and clutching a piece of cloth draped around her hips. At her feet, there is a dolphin that, practically, adds support to the piece and artistically makes an allusion to Venus's birth from the sea. As the notes from the Getty Museum explain, the statue is derived from a very popular Greek statue created by the sculptor Praxiteles around 350 B.C. The statue was so popular that it was copied by many artists.

The Torso of Aphrodite was constructed in the 1st century A.D. and is made entirely of marble. The torso used to belong to a life-sized version statue of The Greek goddess of love Aphrodite. From the moment I saw this piece, I knew I was attracted to it in a deeper way. It

I think about how the world had betrayed this women. They made this woman plump and empty, she does not even have a face. This statue is nude showing everything to the naked eye, she does not have a desirable body. This sculpture shows how much a woman was respected back in the day, which was very little.

Pompeii was a City in Italy which overall has a great significance in Roman culture. Pompeii was not famous for its rise or its rule but its destruction. Pompeii was a picture perfect world full of culture and rich history, It was destroyed in AD 79 by a Volcanic eruption from Mount Vesuvius. It was a symbol of Roman culture and has a great influence on the future even though it existed so long ago.

The most prominent key that supports this idea is that she has a smirk on her face that is reminiscent of archaic smile that is seen in works such as the Peplos Kore (Figure 3) in the archaic period (Kleiner 112). This hint of a smile not only draws the viewer in, but displays that she is aware of a viewer watching her in a private setting, since she is nude, which then led to the fact that she instinctively covers her genital area in a way that creates a more sensual experience for the viewer (Kleiner 143). Another notable feature is the usage of contrapposto, the figures weight is seemingly shifted to her right leg, allowing for her left knee to gently bend, adding to the display of realistic pose of her body. She is also posed in such a way that has been given a name known as the modest Venus, which involves a nude female discreetly covering her private areas with one hand (Lapatin). The sculptor, Praxiteles, paid close attention to the composition and rendering of the goddesses’ form which was left to be a mesmerizing display, muse, and inspiration for generations to come.

The Old Market Woman, is a marble statue that is from the Early Imperial period also known as the Hellenistic period. Artists became obsessed with the idea of childhood and old age, instead of beauty and masculinity. The people in that time, are interested in seeing a statue that has characteristics that catches the viewer 's eyes. We are naturally attracted to beauty. What the artist of The Old Market Woman did though, was take that beauty that we are attracted to, and transforms it into reality and uses it to tell a story. The use of realism relates strongly to the religion that the Woman believed in.

Script: This sculpture made with marble by Timotheos. A distinguish pose of Leda’s lifting left hand making the art piece different from the other. The cause of her pose is to protect the swan from eagle, a transformation of Aphrodite. The scene depicted is unfound in the mythology based on Edith

but more so her fertility. Not only do the hydra and drapery help the statue to stand, function

Aphrodite represents erotic love as a fascinating form of divine influence. The nude Aphrodite has powerful meaning and

One very noteworthy statue of the Classical Period was called “Aphrodite of Knidos”. The original sculpture inspired various amounts of copies, but sadly the original itself did not survive. “Aphrodite of Knidos” was created by Praxitele and is thought to be the most famous sculptures of Classical Greece. The sculpture depicts Aphrodite just have taken off her clothes and was about to step into the bath. She may have had an onlooker and she covered her pelvis from their view.

The Old Market Woman, is a marble statue that dates back to the Early Imperial period, which also known as the Hellenistic period. Artists became fascinated with the idea of childhood and old age, instead of beauty and masculinity. More become interested in seeing a statue that has characteristics that catches the viewer 's eyes. We are naturally attracted to beauty as humans. What the artist of The Old Market Woman did, though was they had taken that beauty that we are attracted to, and transforms it into reality and then uses it to tell a story. The use of realism relates strongly to the religion that the Woman of this statue believed in.